Economic Benefits It is not a big surprise that various public cloud vendors (led by AWS) are experiencing more success than ever before. The list of advantages continues to grow. In this section of the chapter, we are going to present just some of the economic advantages available with the use of AWS services. One…
Automation and Application Support – Understanding and Managing Storage
Automation and Application Support Many tools enable the deployment of applications and automation in AWS. Here are some of the major ones: CodeDeploy: AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of compute services, such as EC2, Lambda, and your on-premises servers. CodeDeploy makes it easier for you…
Database Services – CLF-C02 Study Course
Database Services There are many different approaches to databases these days, as our data needs have grown more varied and complex. AWS does a great job of keeping up with the advancements in a variety of services: Relational Database Service (RDS): AWS RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database…
Network Services – CLF-C02 Study Course
Network Services Where would we be without networks? Well, back to the Sneakernet, I suppose (the days when employees in offices would carry disks from desk to desk as a method of transferring data). Thanks to modern advancements in networking, the cloud is now possible. Here are some of the critical networking services we discuss…
Storage Services – CLF-C02 Study Course
Storage Services The demands placed on storage for digital information today are higher than ever before—and getting bigger all the time. It is no wonder that AWS offers many services in this regard. The list that follows highlights just some of the important services we will discuss further in this text: Simple Storage Service (S3):…
Introduction to the AWS Cloud
Introduction to the AWS Cloud It is time to examine (at a high level) just some of the service categories in the AWS Cloud and some of the services and tools in each. This section provides this vital introduction for you. Remember that we will be covering these services in some detail later in the…
Introduction to the Cloud 2 – CLF-C02 Study Course
Platform as a Service (PaaS): This “as a service” model provides a cloud infrastructure to the customer that enables the development and deployment of consumer-created or acquired applications developed for the cloud. The provider ensures that the required programming languages, libraries, services, and tools are available for the customer. Typically, this is done on a…
Introduction to the Cloud – CLF-C02 Study Course
Introduction to the Cloud To help us define the “cloud,” we turn to the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). You can find NIST’s very beneficial site at https://www.nist.gov. According to NIST, cloud computing is “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks,…
Command line – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
To perform a disk snapshot, we can run the following command:gcloud compute snapshots create SNAPSHOT_NAME –source-disk=SOURCE_DISK_NAME –source-disk-zone=DISK_ZONE Figure 4.50 – A command-line snapshot is created Snapshot creation takes a moment. After successfully creating the snapshot, we can proceed to delete snapshots. Deleting an instance snapshot Deletion of the snapshot is a straightforward process. Console In…
Resizing a disk – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
A typical operation when working with instances is resizing a disk. We do it mainly when the disk is full and needs more capacity. Console To increase the disk size, we need to go to the storage section of the Cloud console and click Disks. Choose the desired disk you want to increase by clicking…